I need advice!
I've been dating my boyfriend pretty consistently for almost 4 years. I say "consistently" because last year we broke up for about 5 months. We're both in college, but our schools are about six hours away. We see each other maybe once a month during the school year and then spend all summer together in our hometown.
It's been hard, especially last year when he decided he wanted to give a girl at his school a chance and dumped me. He quickly changed his mind but my trust was shattered and I refused to let him back into my life for most of the 5 months. Now we've been back together for half a year (even with the girl from last year living in the apartment next to his!), and I've been so excited because he's graduating and applying for grad school! Finally, I thought, he could be at the same school as me (I'm only a sophomore so I've still got two more years here). Unfortunately his GRE scores weren't as good as we'd hoped. In fact, they were pretty dismal. Not to brag, but my school isn't the type of school that you can get into with less than impressive test scores. We're both pretty sure that he won't be accepted. Other grad schools he is applying to are a minimum of 7 hours away from me.
I've invested so much in this relationship and I really love him..I sincerely hope to marry him one day. I just wasn't planning on being apart from him for so long. Obviously the distance is working against us, as evidenced by his slip up last year. I honestly don't know if I could handle him being away from me for several more years. I feel bad asking him to take a year - even just a semester - off, to retake the GRE and reapply to my school. I know if he gets accepted to any school his parents will want him to go there, regardless of how far it is from me. I don't know what to do
Sorry this is so long, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've been dating my boyfriend pretty consistently for almost 4 years. I say "consistently" because last year we broke up for about 5 months. We're both in college, but our schools are about six hours away. We see each other maybe once a month during the school year and then spend all summer together in our hometown.
It's been hard, especially last year when he decided he wanted to give a girl at his school a chance and dumped me. He quickly changed his mind but my trust was shattered and I refused to let him back into my life for most of the 5 months. Now we've been back together for half a year (even with the girl from last year living in the apartment next to his!), and I've been so excited because he's graduating and applying for grad school! Finally, I thought, he could be at the same school as me (I'm only a sophomore so I've still got two more years here). Unfortunately his GRE scores weren't as good as we'd hoped. In fact, they were pretty dismal. Not to brag, but my school isn't the type of school that you can get into with less than impressive test scores. We're both pretty sure that he won't be accepted. Other grad schools he is applying to are a minimum of 7 hours away from me.
I've invested so much in this relationship and I really love him..I sincerely hope to marry him one day. I just wasn't planning on being apart from him for so long. Obviously the distance is working against us, as evidenced by his slip up last year. I honestly don't know if I could handle him being away from me for several more years. I feel bad asking him to take a year - even just a semester - off, to retake the GRE and reapply to my school. I know if he gets accepted to any school his parents will want him to go there, regardless of how far it is from me. I don't know what to do
Sorry this is so long, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
